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A Corner of the Garden of Saint-Paul’s Hospital at Saint-Rémy, 1889
Using soft graphite and ink on pinkish paper, this ambitious drawing is the most finished of a group Van Gogh made of this corner of the hospital garden. Above a fence, a row of pines with irregular, windswept growth shelters the overgrown grass below, which is dotted with flowers such as the foreground irises. The bending gardener or labourer may have been someone Van Gogh observed, but could equally have been invented.
Graphite and ink on paper
Tate: Bequeathed by C. Frank Stoop 1933